Dataverse Readme for "Rewards for Ratification" replication archives.
Rich Nielsen
11/8/2017

tl;dr: You probably want to download "archive_test", but be warned that it is big.


Details:

Updates to the replication archive files for Nielsen and Simmons, 2015, "Rewards for Ratification":

On Jan 19, 2014, I posted "archive_essentials.7z" which is a 7-zip compressed archive that contains all of the raw data files and the code to build up the data sets, but does not contain the merged data in the analysis.  "archive_essentials.7zip" is 4.42 GB when unzipped.

On Mar 19, 2016, I posted "archive_essentials.tar" which is the same but does not require the 7-zip software to open (apparently 7-zip is unavailable for Mac).  

On Nov 8, 2017, I posted "archive_test.7z" and "archive_test.tar" which is the full replication archive with the files made along the way as part of the analysis.  I didn't post this back in 2014 because the file size was larger than the limits allowed by the Harvard dataverse, but those limits have now been increased.  "archive_test.7zip" is 14.5 GB when unzipped.

The "archive_test" files are the output of starting with "archive_essentials" and running through all of the scripts.  I ran them back in 2014.  Updates to R and Stata can make it increasingly difficult to obtain the same results as time passes.  Essentially the code breaks because of updates that are not backwards compatible.  The "archive_test" files thus serve as a digital record of what the analysis looked like at the time we did it.

Each archive contains its own readme that tells you where to get started.